The problem I have with "the Cathedral" is the idea of modern tyranny as an emergent phenomenon rather than a machine driven and operated by interested parties.

It's a dressed up way of saying "come on, do you think everyone is in on it?" As if this is a necessary condition.
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The real answer is more complicated—no, the tyranny is not the result of a meticulously-managed top-down conspiracy that everyone is "in on"—it's the result of compartmentalization.
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Complex operations and the roles of individual players within them are constructed, guided, and acted out on a need-to-know basis. Anyone who has ever worked on a government contract knows this: you may only know what's needed to perform your specific task, no more.
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It's really not that complicated at all, we can even see it at play within something as mundane as an office workplace. Low level folks don't know the inner workings of the company's financials, what big wigs discuss in corner offices, etc.—they just show up and work.
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Think of a scam as complex as, say, Enron. When the whole scandal broke, most of the company—the lower level people—were simply having the rug pulled out from under them because they had no idea how bad things actually were.
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#DontLookUp is the ultimate demonstration of leftists' unwarranted smugness and lack of self-awareness.

If you haven't seen the movie, allow me to save you the 2.5 insufferable hours. 🧵

The premise is that two astronomers, Leo and JLaw, discover a massive 9km-wide comet heading straight for Earth, predicting a 99.7% chance of impact in six months. Black NASA Guy does a Peer Review™ for them. The film uses this as an analogy for global warming. Yes, really.
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Already, we have an unbearably affected, histrionic comparison: in the leftist mind, global warming—a long, slow, and extremely overblown process—is exactly like a planet-killer object with a near-100% certainty of striking the Earth & killing us all. Off to a great start.
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This sort of overly-dramatic, unreasonable comparison isn't unlike those found with regard to C_VID policy: "you wear a seatbelt, don't you?" Masking to stop a weak-ass virus is just like wearing a seatbelt to keep from being thrown through the windshield in a car crash.
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As an aside, I found it extremely funny how they made JLaw's character look like the Zoomer Wojak Yerba Mate Witchtokker, as if you just spotted her smoking a cigarette in the corner of a basement house show in Logan Square or something. Very relatable! 🙄
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